Stateness and democracy in East Asia

Democratization and state building are fundamental political processes, yet scholars cannot agree on which process should be prioritized in order to put countries on a positive path of institutional development. Where much of the existing literature on the state-democracy nexus focuses on quantitati...

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Other Authors: Croissant, Aurel (Editor) , Hellmann, Olli (Editor)
Format: Book/Monograph
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, USA Cambridge University Press 2022
Edition:First paperback edition
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Author Notes:edited by Aurel Croissant (Heidelberg University), Olli Hellmann (University of Waikato)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : rethinking stateness and democracy in East Asia Aurel Croissant and Olli Hellmann
  • State building and democratization : the sequencing debate and evidence from East Asia Tuong Vu
  • South Korea's democracy and the legacies of the developmental state Olli Hellmann
  • Hegemony : state capacity, the quality of democracy and the legacies of the party-state in democratic Taiwan Kharis Templeman
  • Democratization interrupted : the parallel state and the demise of democracy in Thailand Paul Chambers
  • Weak state and the limits of democratization in Cambodia, 1993-2017 Kheang Un
  • The institutional roots of defective democracy in the Philippines Erik Martinez Kuhonta and Nhu Truong
  • Stateness and state capacity in post-authoritarian Indonesia : securing democracy's survival, entrenching its low quality Marcus Mietzner
  • As good as it gets? : stateness and democracy in East Timor Aurel Croissant and Rebecca Abu Sharkh
  • Stateness and democracy : evidence from East Asia and cross-regional comparisons Aurel Croissant and Olli Hellmann.